I’ve often asked myself how a kid from a blue-collar family like mine ever got to work with so many accomplished people in such intellectually stimulating places. Looking back, I’ve come to realize that inglorious factors drove my career: an aching desire to make something of myself; the peculiar blessing of a tendency to doubt […]

Too focused on “scientific” research, business schools are hiring professors with limited real-world experience and graduating students who are ill equipped to wrangle with complex, unquantifiable issues—in other words, the stuff of management.